The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-10-13

Try become n nature and character like unit
them No nation ever did any thing worth re
memboring nor worth fighting for that did no
honor its heroic and martyred dead; who did no
, count among It's inestimable treasure
fame OF its iliustrious ancestors. Walhalla, hi
Pantheon, Westminster represent only tn
universal reverence OF man for the immortal
OF the glorious past. These, at least are our
beyond the power of fortune or the futurel w,
stand to-day by the grave OF one who deserves
grateful remembrance; whose name can not bt
forgotten so long rs our tongue repeats the his
tory OF our liberties and growth. And the verl
| name illustrates the truth that institutions nft
growths and not creations, that enlightened
liberty Is n development capable OF historical
philosophic trimming,
The warrant for the execution OF Charles l.
has been said by great thinker TO DO with the
Magma Chnrta and Declaration OF indie
pendencc the three nohlest monuments OF our
l liberty, and he pointed ont that TO that War
rant and Declaration there was but one name In
common-the name of IIarrison-the ancestors
Of the soldier Of liberty and Chief Magistrate OF
this Republic of freemeu, who sleeps in that
! grave whose life was devoted to the spread OF
the civilizations and to the defense OF the inst-
| buttons OF which these immortal papers are
monuments II is not therefore byperbole TO
declare OF this name that on the rolls OF liberty
| II Is immortal.
Born In iT;3 on the bosom OF the Common
wealth OF Virginia, his eventful and perilous
life was fairly typical OF the race from which he
sprang The Englishspcaxing people have
been a race OF soldier pioneers; colonists not
adventnrcrs; emiFrants founding new empires
and building new States. The most construct
i've race the world has ever seen, it has pushed
its conauests in every part OF the world, and
when il once got foothold there IL stayed;
when once the leayen OF its thought and religion
and civilization was put into the measure OF
meal any where. the potent fermentation began
and ooaslcssly continued.
May be permitted TO suggest that one OF the
inserted problems OF our form OF Government
is the mode OF protecting minorities when the
point Of difference is wholly sectional and the
division is also aud necessarily sectional. True
II, erty in its ultimate analysis is a potential
voice in the Governmental be OF ami not under
the Government; the mere form OF voting, the
prctense OF consultation, may be and has been
wholly illusory. II the rcsolute majority be en-
tirely sectional, the minor section qaodd hoe is
subordinate, which is subject, as to that matter
it has no voice in the decision OF what may
be vital 10 its interest and honor. That in free
Suites the majority must rule is no less true
than that minorties must be protected, and
both can well be practically carried out, where
the division is one OF opinion and view among
a homogeneous people within the same terrific
rial lines-a division OF neighborhoods, families
all are beneftted alike. But this is not
so when the division is sectional and the
majority is caused solely by the denser popula-
ton resident in one section; where the appeal
is not 10 the sober thought Of people equally
and similarly interested and presumably con-
trollcd by the same motives but 10 different
sections with apparently diverse interests and
controlled by opposite motives. For such
case we have no other remedy than submission
or force; the bowed head OF. conscious weakness
or the appeal 10 arms.
There must DO a peaceful and honorable
remedy for this precise case; 1t will be found
AS every age and generation must meet Its
own problems, 1t can not be that our children
will not find the true solution of this one. And
II may be that In that alliance OF the Dominion
OF Canada on the north and OF Republics
on the south, new and noblor con-
tribution to the muniments OF civil liberty may
be given by the heirs OF those who wrung from
King John approval OF the Magma Charta; OF
those who beheaded King and enthroned
Lord Protector; OF those who dethroned James
and asserted the power of electihg u King: OF
those who gave TO mankind the Declaration
OF Independence and the American Constitu
ton
When we read in parallel columns the Magma
Charta and our constitution; when We recall
the progress from Cromwell TO Washington;
when we realize the wondrous fabric OF orr
lrNeuOns surely we may look Win NOuHutuCG
and pride TO the achievements with which ocf
loss viii bless mankind, and rejoice in the GER
tainty of the grenter glory which awaits them
In the wider aud graver duties which the prog
ress Of humanity demands
AS We stand by the side OF this beautiful riv
or, within sight OF three powerful, free and hap
py commonwealth, and recall the labors, tolls,
sacrifices and dangers which made up the life
OF that hero whose grave we this day honor, and
OF his comrades aud generation; as VIC
recount the triumphs won by them, which have
given us so noble n heritago;. as we cast our
selves into that beckoning future which those
labors and men made possible, our hearts, with
pride and love and gratitude, claim those sol
dicrs as our fathers and in the sight OF the eoun-
try and OF the world we lift up their honored
names and dutiful lives for the imitation OF our
children.
Rest heroic spirit, in the bosom OF the land
your valor protected, by the side OF the river 10
whose commerce you gave peace, amid the poo
pie whose institutions you defended; and If your
immortal soul can be with us this day summon
TO your side the shades OF the lofty dead whose
chief you were, and share with US the blessings
of the triunphs you won; blessing so magnih-
cent that no human !a-SrEsc cGn fifty portray
them. and unite with us in the fcrvent prayer
that in the ages to come from your and our
loins Will spring men like unto you, equal TO
their day and its peril.
When the applause which greeted Mr.. BrecK-
enridge's speech had subsidized the venerable
Jacob HoIner exhibited ring given TO him by
General Harrison, which had once been an orna-
ment in the nose of the great Indian Chief, Te
cunseh. Z. NJ. Davis made short speech.
The shades OF night had began 10 fall when the
audience dispersed, and the rising moon kissed
again, as II had done for forty-six years, the
tomb in which the pioneer hero has been so long
at rest.
Itofcrn tho ,nae,iyg adjourned resolution NJ.
fered by Colonel a. Il. Jones to the effect that
Congressmen OF Ohio. kentucky and Indiana be |
requested to ask an appropriation of $1,000 for |
the erection of a shaft over the remains of Cen |
eral Harrison was enthusiastically adopted The |
celebration was q remarkable testimonial OF
generation for the dead hero BY the pioneer citi
zens. who will never forget his conspicuous and |
noble qualities. and who seek 10 instill his OK |
ample In the minds OF the future guardians OF |
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